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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davis Halifax, Nancy Viva, 1956- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2015.
Series:Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Index; Chain I; Chain II; Chain III; Intake; Not as important as; What is said; Uses of the dead; Nottingham, c. 1832; Industry; The sound of rain
  • Booth, c. 1879; The army marches into Canada, c. 1882; Toronto, c. 1931; Lotte; Toronto, c. 2013; Medication time
  • 8 a.m.
  • Margrit; Double Love-Knot; Narissa; Betty; Valerie; Margrit; Medication time
  • 6 p.m.
  • Maude; The chaplain; Marge; Medication time
  • 8 p.m.
  • Gwin and Celeste; A Life Composed, Age Thirteen; Butterfly stitch; House; Each body remembers the necessary distance between beds; Hook; Gwin; Rita.
  • Marnie & SahsOld hotel; Krysta; The house
  • imagined; Homes; Roommate; Headlines; Have you seen this child?; Awake, the embers around us dying; A life composed, age eleven; A life composed, age twelve; What to do if your country stops breathing; Approaching sorrow; She waited; This cup is that colour; Curbside; Blueprint; The appearance of improbable contingencies; Pineapple pattern; Lullaby
  • Gardiner Expressway; Housing studies; Classical conditioning; Kandi; The direction of memory; Fare; Three strikes; Emergency; Nos voisines; Persistence at the threshold
  • LizaKim.
  • Prayer to prayer to prayer (grace)On Monday night, Jenny; Pigeons: Southwest corner, 5 a.m.; As I read what is of lessand less interest; The commons (a chorus); Acknowledgments.